free company
a band of free companions.
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The count had been encamped with his free company for the last five days in the Casa Grande of Moctecuhzoma.
The Tiger-Slayer | Gustave AimardThe little band advanced to the west, in the direction of which the free company had marched in pursuit of the Apaches.
The Tiger-Slayer | Gustave AimardBefore long the free company, with the captain at its head, disappeared in the Del Norte.
The Tiger-Slayer | Gustave AimardMany of them made objection to this, saying that one had no reason to take more risk than another in this free company.
Robin Hood | Paul CreswickHe was appointed governor of Inverness, with a free company of Highlanders.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 | Mrs. Thomson
British Dictionary definitions for free company
European history a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages
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